Patents Examined by Charles J Brauch
  • Patent number: 12090836
    Abstract: An off-road vehicle includes an intake box and an intake duct. The intake box includes an internal space and a meshed wall. The meshed wall is attached with a filter and includes frames defining a plurality of openings through which the internal space is open to an outside of the off-road vehicle. The intake duct is connected to the intake box. At least one frame of the frames includes a base and a rib. The base includes an outer surface in contact with the filter. The rib protrudes from the base toward the internal space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kengo Shimatani
  • Patent number: 12090978
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a braking apparatus for a vehicle is advantageous in that this secures the reliability and backup brake performance of a pedal stroke sensor, so that it is possible to prevent a problem in which the brake performance of the vehicle has an error while the vehicle is driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woo Hyun Hwang, Jong Won Park, Se Young Cheon, Hae Chul Lee, Pil Jun Kim
  • Patent number: 12085954
    Abstract: In a steering method for an agricultural machine, the agricultural machine is steered by track steering action independent of GNSS position data along an initial travel track in a working region until a headland adjoining the working region is reached at an exit point of the initial travel track. The agricultural machine is automatically steered by turn steering action, steering it based on an actual position determined based exclusively on GNSS position data, through the headland until an entry point of a target travel track in the working region is reached. The agricultural machine is steered by track steering action along the target travel track. The agricultural machine automatically detects a transition from a travel track of the working region into the headland and/or a transition from the headland into a travel track of the working region and switches accordingly between turn steering action and track steering action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jan Horstmann, Andre Tenkleve, Mathias Rabenschlag
  • Patent number: 12084995
    Abstract: The combustion chamber inlet of a lean-burn gasoline engine (110) is connected to an air intake port outlet (15a, 15b) and comprises a throat where the air intake port (10) outlet meets the combustion chamber inlet. A movable valve (51) comprises a bottom surface (61) that faces the combustion chamber (50) and a tapered top surface (62) that faces the air intake port (10). The movable valve (51) is arranged to move between a closed state for closing off the combustion chamber inlet and an opened state wherein intake air can flow from the air intake port (10) into the combustion chamber (50). The throat comprises a tapered surface (71) that is complementary with the tapered top surface (62) of the movable valve (51).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITED
    Inventors: Jack Johnson, Lyn McWilliam
  • Patent number: 12071864
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a turbine section disposed about an engine axis. The turbine section includes inner and outer diameter ceramic support rings that define a gaspath there between. Each of the inner and outer diameter ceramic support rings is monolithic and continuous. Ceramic vane arc segments are disposed in the gaspath and supported by the inner and outer diameter ceramic support rings. Each of the ceramic vane arc segments includes inner and outer platforms and an airfoil section there between. At least one retainer engages the inner or outer diameter ceramic support ring with the ceramic vane arc segments to retain the ceramic vane arc segments between the inner and outer diameter ceramic support rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Howard J. Liles, Bryan P. Dube
  • Patent number: 12071919
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nozzle for injecting fuel comprising an orifice in the region of a nozzle tip for leading fuel out of the nozzle and a reception hole for receiving a nozzle needle, wherein the reception hole has a seat region for a sealing closing by a nozzle needle to enable a fuel supply to the orifice in dependence on a position of the nozzle needle, characterized in that the longitudinal axis of the orifice is directed toward a region of the reception hole that adjoins the side of the seat region remote from the nozzle tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: LIEBHERR-COMPONENTS DEGGENDORF GMBH
    Inventors: Richard Pirkl, Alexander Preis, Klaus Lichtinger
  • Patent number: 12065102
    Abstract: A vehicle includes: a camera disposed on left and right sides of an exterior of the vehicle and configured to acquire image data by photographing a surrounding area of the vehicle. A controller is configured to, upon a touch of a user on a door handle of a driver door being identified based on image processing on the image data, determine a height of the user based on the image processing on the image data and to adjust positions of a driver's seat, a steering wheel, and a head up display (HUD) to correspond to the determined height of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seungkyu Kang, Heongseok Kim
  • Patent number: 12060854
    Abstract: Embodiments of the apparatus relate to a tool configured to repair and recondition a fuel injector seat. The tool includes a body having a working end and a rotary end, a rod extending through the body, wherein a first portion of the rod is exposed at or near the rotary end and a second portion of the rod is exposed at or near the working end, and a machining bit attached to the rod at or along the second portion of the rod, wherein the machining bit is configured to perform work on a fuel injector seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: MILTON INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Del Rossa
  • Patent number: 12060118
    Abstract: Control systems and methods for an electric power steering (EPS) system of a vehicle include obtaining, by a controller of the vehicle and from a set of sensors, a set of parameters of an electric motor of the EPS system, the EPS system further comprising a steering column and a steering wheel, and controlling, by the controller, the EPS system by based on the set of measured parameters of the electric motor, performing vector type recursive least squares estimation (RLSE) of a plurality of lumped EPS parameters including applying a variable forgetting factor, generating steering angle torque commands based on the estimated plurality of lumped EPS parameters, and controlling the electric motor of the EPS based on the generated steering angle torque commands for more accurate control of a trajectory of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventor: Lubna Khasawneh
  • Patent number: 12055154
    Abstract: A ceiling fan is provided. The ceiling fan includes one or more fan blades. The ceiling fan further includes a motor. The motor is operatively coupled to the one or more fan blades. The motor is configured to drive rotation of the one or more fan blades. The ceiling fan further includes a light kit. The light kit includes a panel. The panel has an edge extending between a top surface of the panel and a bottom surface of the panel. The light kit further includes at least one light source positioned to illuminate the edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Progress Lighting, LLC
    Inventors: Walter Steven Register, Palmer Joseph Primm, Dhavalkumar Prabhudas Patel
  • Patent number: 12043175
    Abstract: Systems for detecting movement of a trailer having a rearward facing camera and linked to a tow vehicle. The systems include taking a first image and a second image with the camera and comparing the images. A first amount of trailer movement is determined between the second image and the first image. The systems may also take additional images and determine a second amount of trailer movement occurring between the additional images. Tracking the first amount and the second amount of trailer movement determines an amount of trailer sway. The determined trailer sway may be compared to a maximum allowable sway and, if the movement is greater than the maximum allowable sway, mitigating sway of the trailer with the tow vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Yun Qian Miao, Halit Zengin, Akram M. Abdel-Rahman, Todd W. Nelson
  • Patent number: 12044191
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine with an engine block with at least one cylinder cavity housing a cylinder liner. The cylinder liner includes at least one aperture in a wall of the cylinder liner that is aligned with one of an intake port or an exhaust port in the engine block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignees: Cummins Inc., Achates Power, Inc.
    Inventor: David J. Eckroth
  • Patent number: 12037934
    Abstract: A coolant draining tool for draining a coolant from an electrical storage system, ESS, of a heavy-duty vehicle, wherein the coolant draining tool is of elongated shape and includes an internal tubular channel for guiding a flow of coolant in a discharge direction, the coolant draining tool including an externally threaded portion which encloses the tubular channel at a distal first end of the coolant draining tool, wherein a valve engagement member is arranged centered in the tubular channel at the first end of the coolant draining tool, the valve engagement member being arranged to engage a spring-loaded valve of an ESS connector to bias the valve into an open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Johan Öjergren, Oskar Hedberg, Kenny Leandersson
  • Patent number: 12037922
    Abstract: A turbomachine blade includes a blading made of composite material with a fibrous reinforcement densified by a matrix and a metal leading edge formed by a metal foil, the foil having an intrados fin and an extrados fin which extend respectively over intrados and extrados faces of the blading by conforming to an airfoil of the blade, wherein the blade also includes at least one unidirectional fabric ply made of composite material on the leading edge between the blading and the metal foil, each unidirectional fabric ply extending at least partially over the intrados and extrados faces of the blading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Azalia Moradi, Bassem Ben Belgacem, Célia Iglesias Cano
  • Patent number: 12027042
    Abstract: A road information providing system includes: a first traffic state recognition unit that recognizes a first traffic state that is a traffic state of first-type movable bodies; a second traffic state recognition unit that recognizes a second traffic state that is a traffic state of second-type movable bodies smaller in size than the first-type movable bodies; a specific road area extraction unit that extracts, as a specific road area, a road area satisfying traffic determination conditions including a determination condition that the first traffic state shows that a traffic volume of the first-type movable bodies has decreased and a determination condition that the second traffic state shows that the second-type movable body is traveling; and a traveling obstruction information providing unit that provides traveling obstruction information serving as notification that an event has occurred which obstructs the traveling of the first-type movable bodies in the specific road area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Hagihara, Ryusuke Tamanaha, Shigeyuki Odashima, Kousuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12025224
    Abstract: An improvement to the Waissi type opposed piston internal combustion (IC) engine is proposed. The engine has at least one pair of aligned and opposed cylinders with one reciprocating double-headed piston assembly in each cylinder pair. The reciprocating motion of the piston is transmitted to the driveshaft by a rotating crankdisk, which is mounted off-centered to the driveshaft. When the crankdisk rotates, the flat linear sections on the outer perimeter of the bearing ring prevent the bearing ring from rotating, hydrodynamic lubrication conditions are created on both the outer flat linear interfaces and the inner perimeter of the bearing ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Inventors: Gary Ray Robert Waissi, Robert Waissi
  • Patent number: 12025083
    Abstract: Oxidizer and fuel supply system for internal combustion engines, which includes oxygen supplies for the engines, particle filters, oxygen generators using nanofilters, pressurized oxygen bottles and air compressors, O2 loading media, by means of bottles, carboys or interchangeable tanks or hoses, Complementary means of nanomolecular membrane filters that separate O2 from air, performing the separation by means of aspiration or suction from the combustion engine or the suction or impulsion of a pump or compressor driven by an electric motor or mechanically by the combustion engine itself; Storage means for the separated or obtained O2; means for controlling the variable fuel/O2 mixture by means of a processor or an ECU (engine control unit); and as fuel: synthetic fuel, hydrocarbons, alcohols or hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Inventor: Manuel Munoz Saiz
  • Patent number: 12018632
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an air filter assembly for cleaning an air stream for a commercial vehicle, including a pre-filter communicating with an air intake and a first fine filter which is provided downstream of the pre-filter in the direction of the air stream and, together with the pre-filter, is associated with an air filter part which extends vertically in a predetermined installation position. A redundant second fine filter, which is associated with an air filter part which extends horizontally in the predetermined installation position, follows the first fine filter in the direction of the air stream, the horizontally extending air filter part being a component of a syphon-like conduit region which rises in a curved manner in the direction of an air outlet, starting from the redundant second fine filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Ming Parker Yuen, Alexander Berg, Phouphadeth Sananikone, Silvia Janouschek
  • Patent number: 12006898
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method are provided for an aircharger air intake system for filtering and conducting an airstream to an air intake of an engine. The aircharger air intake system includes an air filter comprising a filter medium configured to entrap particulates flowing within the airstream. An air box comprising one or more sidewalls and a mount wall is configured to support the air filter within an engine bay. The air box is configured to be mounted, or fastened, onto the engine. An intake tube is coupled with the air filter and configured to conduct the airstream to the air intake of the engine. The intake tube is configured to be coupled with an air temperature sensor or a mass air sensor of the engine. An adapter is configured to couple the intake tube with the air intake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: K&N Engineering, Inc.
    Inventor: Steve Williams
  • Patent number: 12006833
    Abstract: A turbomachine including a turbine rotor, a compressor rotor, and a shaft, and at least one balance weight assembly connected to the shaft. The shaft drivingly connects the turbine rotor with the compressor rotor to rotate the compressor rotor about a rotational axis when the turbine rotor rotates about the rotational axis. The at least one balance weight assembly including a first chamber, at least one additional chamber, and a balance weight movable between the first chamber and the at least one additional chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Prateek Jalan, Kudum Shinde, Milind Dhabade, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Tyler F. Hooper